Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.